bobryansson

I kind of see this game, as it's developed, as a potential negative season breaker. Earlier, with the errors and Thornton's failure, they blew a 4-run lead and we have not recovered. (Though maybe it fell apart with the bunt into a triple play.) Anyway, I think that if they blow this, it would push them over the precipice upon which they're hanging by fingertips. Mentally, they would not recover. It only works negatively, though. If they hang on, they are not off the edge... Maybe holding by 6 fingers instead of 5.

WAY too close to take that pitch.

QUOTE (fathom @ May 30, 2011 -> 07:56 PM) Paniagua and Kevin Walker? Bruney (?!) and, well, I couldn't look any longer to see who else... Ohman, I am guessing.

That shot of the W. Sox bullpen activity... I'm scared.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ May 30, 2011 -> 07:49 PM) You can't have it both ways. You say fire Ozzie or I don't care if he gets fired then want to slurp him if on a rare occasion he does something right. Do you want him gone or not? No.

Well... It worked out that we got Hamilton, Beltre, & Young out of the way whilst maintaing the lead. Yay!

Don't know much about pitching mechanics. Are bad arm angle & lack of curves for strike mutually exclusive?

How does that happen?!!

At least we have speed on the bases. LOL.

QUOTE (The Ginger Kid @ May 24, 2011 -> 11:23 PM) hawk needs to let go of the 16k sq ft house thing At least he let go of "Grand Canyon" for Dunn. Course, Dunn hasn't been so grand.

1 for 32?

I'm impressed there are 44 of us here. Sale looked way better after Coop talked to him. Yes, I know it was a LH hitter. We have nobody to replace Sale if he were sent down, particularly if, as should happen, Peña goes away.

QUOTE (jeffro2525 @ May 19, 2011 -> 07:58 PM) Teahen went on the D.L last year on June 1st...almost right away the Sox started playing better baseball...it looks as though the Sox are starting to pick it up now. Not saying anything bad about Teahen...it's just interesting. So... More addition by subtraction (Teahan) than addition by addition (Vizquel), you're saying.

Protecting Morel from tough pitchers. Showcasing McPhearson so we can trade for a new leadoff hitter.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 13, 2011 -> 10:22 PM) Wtf? Call this an official warning. Seriously though wtf? Agree.

QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ May 13, 2011 -> 11:18 AM) In all honesty, I think Hawk actually died or retired years ago. They just have a technician in the booth working a soundboard with Stone. It has a bunch of pre-recorded rants and uninteresting stories and all of his standard sayings. Hadn't thought of that, but it fits. Maybe the most insightful post in a long time.

We all knew it.

Hawk sounds resigned.

Winner of tis game---> skinniest kid at fat camp.

I picked this year, though 2006 was close. The late collapse that year was the thing that made it stand out for me. Through the first half of 2006, I was still riding the wave from 2005. The fall from altitude was painful. However, this year trumped that for me because of the flavor of the losses so far. I can sometimes even, sort of, see a team-wide batting slump and, with even more difficulty, see a staff-wide drop in pitching (particularly the bullpen, initially). Those are dificult things and slumps happen. In this setting though, I cannot accept these things. I cannot accept them because of the dropped flies, poor tracks to the ball, not covering bases, giving away outs on the bases, runners on first base after they just got their third strike, not finding the ball in the infielders' gloves, throwing it into the seats, runs scoring on wild pitches, serial walks, and weak sauce throws from left field. These are the things that make this so very incredibly painful to watch. These are things that are happening with fair regularity and they are things that MLB players should not allow to happen. I know they will cash their paychecks. We all would. I feel like they are not earning them.

Wicked pitches.

Ummm... First, no. Second, I didn't say Ozzie was the reason for 2005. Just saying players are at fault & deserve credit, whichever. As far as the manager, with a team playing this poorly in every facet of the game, every decision will be bad. When players hit, caught, & pitched in 2005, Ozzie could do "no wrong."

This is not Ozzie's fault.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Apr 30, 2011 -> 07:24 PM) Guaranteeing Thornton, AJ and Teahen those contract numbers for multiple years might be the end of the KW era. At least it SHOULD be. Especially the last two guys. Along with Linebrink. And Pierre. And Peavy. And Rios. And destroying Gordon Beckham. Unfortunately, I am coming around to agree. But KW didn't destroy GB.

QUOTE (Marty34 @ Apr 30, 2011 -> 07:22 PM) If it were someone other than Showalter in the other dugout I think they'd fire walker tomorrow. I don't understand. Sorry.